Samba and dolphin

[jdmcdaniel3]

@cmrntnnr

Hi jdmcdaniel3,

I have it working for reasons that I do not fully understand. The trick to expose the problem was to increase the debug reporting level on the server for both smbd and nmbd using smbcontrol. Once that was done, I compared the logs for accessing of the same share by mount.cifs on the one hand which works and smb:// through dolphin which did not. The logs show some type of naming or name resolution problem on the server side. A quick change to /etc/HOSTNAME to solve the contadiction allows share access via smb://.

While I am happy to accept that it works, I would like to know more about why it works. Why is name resolution different for smb:// than for mount.cifs? BTW, have you considered adding smbcontrol options into your sact tool to increase debug information.

Thanks for you time,

cmrntnnr

So, in my blog I speak of HOSTNAME. Basically, you can set the Samba computer name in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file, or if the setting "netbios name = " is missing or remarked out, you use the Hostname as set by your openSUSE PC. If you set the same name in both places, which is not needed, it can cause odd problems and in any event, if you want both to use the same network name, then just use the one set by openSUSE and keep the one in /etc/samba/smb.conf remarked out or missing. I am happy to hear Samba is working for you and it might be interesting to compare your working /etc/samba/smb.conf file to your original.

Thank You,